USA

By Bill Press As usual, the president said it best: "Millions of our citizens do not have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health care. Millions do not now have…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Viewed from the West, it’s hard not to sympathize with Mir Housein Mousavi and the Iranian opposition forces that have challenged president…
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Ancient memories (Final Installment) By Saul Landau Before we had gone fifty miles, the young Negro trucker, dressed in work pants, a work shirt and wearing a brimmed cloth cap, swapped…
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Cuban Five: Hope they can believe in By Patrick Doherty From the Havana Note blog Yesterday (June 15, 2009), the Supreme Court of the United States officially refused to hear the case…
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By Bill Press In the interest of full disclosure, I sometimes crave a good burger. So whenever the mood strikes, I head to the "Five Guys" closest to Washington's Capitol Hill: on New…
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By Greg Palast From GregPalast.com There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down…
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By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship From Truthout.org You know by now that in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, an elderly white supremacist and anti-Semite named James W. von Brunn…
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Ancient memories (Part 4) By Saul Landau Harvey and I bought cowboy hats for $3 each and tried to pose in them. A young trucker with a tattoo of a hula dancer on his forearm and a…
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By Max J. Castro According to reporting in the Washington Post, “Israeli officials have been stunned by the demands of top Obama officials that Israel halt settlement growth throughout…
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Ancient memories (Part 3) By Saul Landau Harvey and I rode in a truck cab along Highway 66 through a mixture of citrus groves and housing construction. San Bernardino County morphed…
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